enhearse

• inhearse

en- +‎ hearse

enhearse (third-person singular simple present enhearses, present participle enhearsing, simple past and past participle enhearsed)

1. (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

     Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;
     See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
     Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!

   • 1617, Richard Brathwait, A Solemne Joviall Disputation‎, London:

     Enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares;
     Enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe:

   • 1885, Jean Ingelow, “Speranza”, in Poems of the Old Days and the New‎, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 77:

     Who, even that might, would dwell for ever pent
     In this fair frame that doth the spirit inhearse,

   • 2002, X. J. Kennedy, “Mustafa Ferrari”, in The Lords of Misrule‎, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 23:

     Dutifully we queue
     By twosomes for each surrey cloaked in black
     To pull up and enhearse us.